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- Title
Evolutionary aspects of renal function.
- Authors
Natochin, Yuri V.
- Abstract
In his hypothesis of the evolution of renal functions Homer Smith proposed that the formation of glomerular nephron and body armor had been adequate for the appearance of primitive vertebrates in fresh water and that the adaptation of homoiotherms to terrestrial life was accompanied by the appearance of the loop of Henle. In the current paper, the increase in the arterial blood supply and glomerular filtration rate and the sharp elevation of the proximal reabsorption are viewed as important mechanisms in the evolution of the kidney. The presence of glomeruli in myxines and of nephron loops in lampreys suggests that fresh water animals used the preformed glomerular apparatus of early vertebrates, while mechanisms of urinary concentration was associated with the subdivision of the kidney into the renal cortex and medulla. The principles of evolution of renal functions can be observed at several levels of organizations in the kidney.
- Subjects
KIDNEY glomerulus; KIDNEY tubules; KIDNEY blood-vessels; VERTEBRATES; KIDNEY cortex; SMITH, Homer William, 1895-1962
- Publication
Kidney International, 1996, Vol 49, Issue 6, p1539
- ISSN
0085-2538
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/ki.1996.220